The ups and downs of five years since I began my Weight Watchers journey

This week, I am celebrating my five-year anniversary! It was five years ago this week that I took that giant leap and walked into my very first Weight Watchers meeting. Yes, I joined WW the week before Thanksgiving. Most people thought I was nuts. Most said, “Why join now? Wait until after the holidays. Enjoy the holidays. Start January 1.”

I thought, “Why wait? Why not start now? Why do I want to pack on even more pounds?”

So. I joined. And I am so glad I did. Weight Watchers has changed my life…LITERALLY!

I will get more into that in an upcoming post. For now, I am going to let you see, in pictures, my weight loss journey in numbers. The day I joined Weight Watchers, I was 190.2 pounds. However, just recently, I made the decision to change my starting weight online because prior to joining, I had lost 10 pounds on my own, but that was all I could muster by myself.

So, when you see my starting weight, it actually shows up as 200.2 because I changed it to what my starting weight actually was…it’s just the starting date had to stay the same. I track my weight every week on my Weight Watchers e-tools (electronic tools) account. My weigh-in day used to be on Wednesdays, but I changed it to Fridays about a year ago.

The charts are copied from my e-tools account and are a little hard to read because they actually go backward, meaning you read from the bottom up. The most current date is on the bottom of the chart and then you read to the top. Hopefully it will make sense when you look at them. You will notice that I had – and still have – lots of ups AND downs, meaning weight gains and weight losses. The journey, which again, I will write about in an upcoming blog, has not been perfect by any means. And it NEVER will be.

Enjoy browsing at my journey in numbers!